Look a little closer ;) It’s right on the F&C front page.  http://www.fandckits.com  It’s kit #8470. It is not listed in either the PRR listing or the listing by kit number, but the F&C web site is a bit like their kit instructions, so that really shouldn’t surprise you!

The F&C model came out last year, after the article by Chuck Cover was written and submitted. My TKM article about creating etched brass decks for the F34 DOES mention the F&C kit as well as having some illustrations that nicely indicate that pattern of holes and rivets in the decks of these cars. And not, the deck was NOT “sacrificial” as one recent reply indicated. It was heavy gauge steel, meant to take the force of the ties downs with any additional reinforcing. Referencing back to the C&NW car, I do NOT know if the decks were the same, but I suspect that they were different, as the decks I did came directly from PRR drawings and I am fairly sure that the decks were made by the PRR.

Because I am somewhat delusional, my plan is to sand the resin deck off of the F&C car, clear all of the resin from the areas that would have been open on the frame and then apply my etched brass decks, with the addition of Archer rivets. Without doing that, the kit looks very simple, with the caveat that the sill steps are fragile as hell and really need a brass replacement… (as with the F33).

The car requires 5’ wheelbase trucks, which can be bashed from Bower’s single spring PRR cabin car truck, or you can use the resin trucks in the kit. I am not thrilled with using resin trucks, but that is what I did with the F&C F33 and I may do that with the F34 as well. If they fail, modified Bowser trucks are a possible fall back position.